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Sarah STUNDEN

Sarah STUNDEN
Contact Information
Email address: 
sarah.stunden [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Sarah Stunden completed her Ph.D. from the Department of English at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University in the fall of 2018. Her SSHRC-funded Masters work at the University of Toronto focused on radical homosociality in Black American oral and literary production. Her J.A. Bombardier CGS-funded doctoral thesis, "Clairvoyant Bodies: Bodily Anachrony and Trauma in Contemporary North American Literature," centres on gendered and racial traumas in post-WWI literature, questioning the role of the suffering body as a clairvoyant narratological device cable of unsettling oppressive societal narratives through acts of non-verbal storytelling.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University (fall 2018)
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., Trent University

Current research: 

Feminist and racial narratology; the fictional body and non-verbal story-telling; literature of Jim Crow; storytelling and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission; James Baldwin; Eden Robinson.

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